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Posted: 17 January 2006 at 7:43pm | IP Logged

i never had it

im just always like this! out of mums i know 2 have had it badly-if thats what youd say!

my mum had it badly with both me n sis; but they didnt deal with it at all then!

Posted: 17 January 2006 at 10:38pm | IP Logged

I agree with Mumsam that the Edinburgh test is not the way to diaganose PND. I lied on mine for sure!!!

I find it increadable that through all the anti natal classes I went to and all the books I read, not one of them mentioned pnd. When I was doing the study with the trainee midwife I said to her that I found it increadible that they didn't cover it in the classes, and she said that its not in their remit, but they are looking into it.

I've suffered from depression before and was high risk, but I've had no support from my docs or HVs. Aparently, I should have been getting fortnightly visits from my HV as I did have "severe pnd" - but i never did.

Anyway, thank you all for your contributions. The results are quite interesting so far. Please do add your votes ladies.

Posted: 18 January 2006 at 2:25am | IP Logged

I know i lied on my PND test when i took it not long after having Aimee and again at her 32 week check.  I had all the pressure of the DNA test when she was born then the split of myself and John around the time of her check.  Not sure if i was feeling low because of these situations or if it was due to depression.

I'm still told now i have PND but i'm still unsure, Aimee is such an easy baby, I cant put things down to her, but i have had a very stressful and eventful 9 months since her birth.  I'm not being treated in any form for what I'm going through right now.

Posted: 18 January 2006 at 8:07pm | IP Logged

I have said "no" - I had baby blues when I came home from hospital for a couple of days - and I did wonder a few times a few months ago as I was feeling low but it was at a time when I was getting v little sleep and I think the way I felt was down to sleep deprivation - when Ellie was about 10 weeks old, I felt awful too but this was when I had read the Baby Whisperer book and tried to get Ellie into the EASY routine which just made me feel like pants because I felt like I was hopeless at being a mum - I can honestly say that I don't think I was depressed tho.

I think the questionnaire was stupid - I didn't lie on it but it would have been very easy to... hardly rocket science is it!

Posted: 23 January 2006 at 8:13pm | IP Logged

When i had Harrison i was depressed and lied on my pnd assesment form, it wasnt until i was about ready to crack up, and both me and dp were near to breaking point because of the depression that i was finally diagnosed as having pnd Harrison was by this time 9 1/2 months old

I think in my case i lied about the way i was feeling and blamed other people as for the reasons for my depression i was ashamed to be in the same 'catagory' as other pnd sufferers though thinking back now im not sure why. It took a long while and i went thorough loads of different emotions before i finally got through things, i came of the fluxotine when Harrison was 2.5 years just 4 weeks befor finding out i was pg with lou,

Both me n Dp were kind of worried throughout my 2nd pg in case i developed pnd again but thankfully i didnt or havent

looking back im amazed i went as long as i did untreated and cant quite imagine how things would have turned out if i went any longer without treatment. Tbh i can see how some women will not allow themselves to get pg again for fear of suffering pnd a second time

i think ive rambled too much, but i know what you mean about the Edinburgh test as alot of pnd sufferes lie on that test and so often their pnd goes untreated and undetected

Posted: 23 January 2006 at 9:37pm | IP Logged

i never did a questionnaire, and yet i was in the country for a month after both births!  no one told me i had to do one.  only heard about it now.

like i said earlier i had the baby blues for a couple of weeks after my first son, but was happy as larry with the second.  i dread to think what wouldve happened if i returned to the gambia with pnd.  there would be no treatment or care for me whatsoever.